Stepping Outside the Hobbit Hole

God’s Commission compels us to venture beyond our comfortable life to awaken purpose and meaning. In today’s episode, Brad, Jeremy, and Trevor talk about New Testament realities, the antidote to purposelessness, and the awakening of the Church. Will we awaken to the world beyond the world we live in to experience the great adventure for which we were made? 

Links and Sources: 

• The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings – a book by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Chronicles of Narnia – a book by C.S. Lewis
• The Battle Beyond Comfort: What Bilbo Baggins Teaches Us About Evangelism – an article by Jeremy Jenkins 
• On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis – a book by Louis Markos
• Church History in Plain Language, Fifth Edition: The Story of the Church for Today's Readers – a book by Bruce Shelley
• The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life – a book by A.W. Tozer
• The story of the demoniac is found in Matthew 8:28-34, Mark 5:1-20, and Luke 8:26-39. 
• The Cross of Christ – a book by John Stott
• The phrase, “Our God has wounds,” is from Jesus of the Scars, a poem by Edward Shillito (1872-1948). 

Questions: 

• How do you see comfort idolized in our culture? 
• What does it mean to live on purpose for God? How does that look practically? 
• What will it take to awaken the Church? 
• When have you seen God working behind the scenes to make the Gospel effective? 
• Why is it important that “our God has wounds”?